Across seven weeks, we’ll be taking these mighty machines to many iconic locations, both of real world motorsport and Gran Turismo itself. Legendary circuits such as Suzuka, Brands Hatch and Mount Panorama combined with GT classics like High Speed Ring and Trial Mountain are sure to make this a season to remember.

The club was originally created here on F1Fanatic, and many F1F members have raced with us over the years.

What I was most surprised by was the levels of access that we had for our £20 tickets. You could pretty much go everywhere and view the action from any vantage point. Towards the end we watched the cars from the balcony of the Silverstone Wing:

I had the same view of last year’s F1 race from there, but the difference was that that time it required paddock Club access (which I was fortunate to have gifted to me by Lotus at the time).

Were I to pay for the same vantage point this year for an F1 race, it would easily cost a couple of grand.

I get the feeling that some of the paddock aren’t fans of the Sky lot either, other than McLaren who are clearly in their pockets. I don’t know but, it seems a lot of personnel are happy to come out and talk to the BBC and relax and laugh along with them, when they are talking to Sky it is like they are going through the motions and can’t really be bothered with them. Little things like Vettel mugging of Brundle last week to speak to Coultard, the lack of access to Vettel Sky appear to have had this week (as pointed out by Keith and noticed by myself too) and just the rapport Jake and Eddie have with a lot of the big players, they always seem to get a lot more insight out of them.

I find that RBR/Sky relationship odd considering that at Silverstone they shared the same Paddock Club lounge.

Memento do a lot of promotion of their sales and such (you all may remember the Jordan 191 they were selling recently) and mentioned contacting Top Gear Magazine regarding promoting my posters and their site. As you can see they made it in the mag, so at least now I can say my work’s been featured in Top gear Magazine, which is pretty neat :)